Re: PIE voiceless aspirates

Brian M. Scott wrote:

> At 4:54:31 on Monday, 7 November 2005, g wrote:
>
>> Miguel wrote:
> >
>>> Perhaps German hyphenation rules
>>> require the word to be split as karp-fen (I wouldn't know),
> >
>> They do (according to both the old and new orthographic systems.
>
> Although the 4th Duden (1895) kept <pf> together after <r>
> and <m>:
>
> Steht vor pf noch ein r oder m, so gehört pf zur zweiten
> Zeile
>
> däm-pfen, Kar-pfen
>
> <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dingo/
> Klassische_deutsche_Rechtschreibung>

The same source:

"Die Klassische deutsche Rechtschreibung war durch
das Wörterbuch von Duden bis zur Reform der deutschen
Rechtschreibung von 1901 in Kraft."

I.e., the 1895 set of rules was replaced by another in 1901.
It's gonna be replaced by a newer one (that what's gradually
been introduced, and not accepted by many people as well as
some publishing houses:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Rechtschreibung).
I don't know the reason why German/Austrian/Swiss linguists
have accepted the p-f hyphenation despite the fact that they
insist on pf being monophonematic.

George